Why MYSTERIES? Because that is the genre I read. Why PARADISE? Because that is where I live.
Among other things, this blog, the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution, will act as a record of books that I've read, and random thoughts.

31 March 2011

Forgotten Book: ANGEL HUNT, Mike Ripley

Publisher's Blurb
Angel is house-sitting for a relative of his landlord when a body drops in through the bathroom skylight. Things start to get really complicated, however, when the corpse turns out to be an old fellow student trying to cut loose from an Animal Rights splinter group.

Between 1988 and 1996, the CWA presented an award for the year's best humorous crime novel; this was initially known as The Punch Award, but subsequently changed to the Last Laugh Dagger. (The Last Laugh Awards are currently presented at CrimeFest)
Mike Ripley won it twice
1989: Angel Touch and 1991: Angels in Arm.

ANGEL HUNT is #3 in a 15 book series of comedy thrillers published 1988-2008. The central character of the series is Band-leader, Fitzroy Maclean Angel.

More about Mike Ripley: source
Mike Ripley is the author of 18 novels, including the award-winning “Angel” series of comic thrillers and about a dozen short stories; and was also a scriptwriter for BBC TV’s “Lovejoy”. As a critic of crime fiction since 1989, he has reviewed over 1,000 crime novels and thrillers, including a ten-year stint as reviewer for the Daily Telegraph. He now writes the monthly “Getting Away With Murder” column for the crime fiction website www.shotsmag.co.uk and is the Series Editor of Top Notch Thrillers, which aims to revive Great British thrillers from the Sixties and Seventies which ‘do not deserve to be forgotten’.